YOU WERE LOOKING FOR :The 1995 Short Story Winner
Essays 61 - 90
In five pages this short story examines the theme of identity within the context of this short story. Four sources are cited in t...
our traditional notions regarding love and romance. She doesnt want any one "box" to define love or sex. The lesbian with a man ...
In six pages this short story considers the author's diagnosis for what is ailing the Caribbean culture and how it can be cured as...
that what they hoped for at collage. However, the betrayal by Duane despite the beauty of Holly. Carver starts to indicted the way...
Short story success is based on a variety of factors, and this paper examines those elements. For example, the use of surprise an...
because her mother ended up marrying Donnas former lover. In an ironic twist of fate, therefore, Donnas lover ended up becoming he...
humanity. The action is the medium by which the man learns, but it is the learning that makes the story fundamentally interesting....
A seemingly reliable third-person narrator tells these stories. In "Luck," a clergyman tells Mr. Clemens about a revered Crimean ...
a stake in his hen-pen and like any cock, his hair was up about it" (Head 70). He returns home to reestablish his "claim" on his "...
When this story was first published "India was highly visible in the international arena for the cultural conflict among its relig...
the tiny little life boat. At one point they believe they see land in the distance, and then they realize it is land. However the ...
rather read about romance and adventure, read the work of Stendhal, Dostoevsky, Balzac, Tolstoy, Flaubert and Proust, rather than ...
may be in similar situations as I have myself been subjected to. "I should start by telling you my name. My name is Beatrice McK...
when an a more appropriate question would be "whether they had fun" (Ecenbarger). This fits with the overall cultural focus on, no...
thing; the movie based on his career was a surprise hit. This paper discusses the horse and the people who were involved with his ...
have suffered centuries of political and economic oppression. Cuba presents perhaps the finest - or worst - example of the conseq...
1997). She attributes the warnings to some sort of liberal conspiracy: "I believe those Republicans who think that theres been a c...
This paper analyzes thematic elements of the short story, The Story of the Bad Little Boy by Mark Twain. The author compares this ...
that respect for a lady takes precedence over legality, common sense and ethical values. It is the sheer weight of her social stat...
In five pages the literary style in this short story is analyzed in terms of the story's direct and indirect evidence, deductive o...
In five pages the representation of the author in this short story is considered with an analysis of the story's plot, setting, ch...
the bank while there is a line of people waiting for service, but rather than agree with a fellow human being, he is caustic and s...
later in the story, Montressor relates that his family was once "great and numerous" (Poe 146). The use of the past tense indicate...
see some good in forced change such as this narrator suggests, and initiates. She simply feels impersonal and as though she is n...
she sits she possesses "a dull stare" possessed of a gaze that "was fixed away off yonder on one of those patches of blue sky. It ...
circle. It soon becomes apparent that everyone with whom Sharon and Frank come into contact know the rumor and believe it. This cr...
In five pages this paper examines the gender relationships featured in 'A Rose for Emily' by William Faulkner, 'Ligeia' by Edgar A...
In five pages this paper presents an analysis of this short story in terms of how imagery, similes, foreshadowing and parallelism ...
In five pages this paper contrasts and compares the conflicts in the short stories 'The Other Foot' and 'All Summer in a Day' by R...
makes the story powerful is that hour where the woman sits alone. And watching her character develop and learn is what makes the t...